25 Đ)HOW MUCH CAN YOU LEARN IN A MONTH

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HOW MUCH CAN YOU LEARN IN A MONTH?

I work for a magazine, which was doing an article about Americans learning

foreign languages. As a(n) (1) ……….. they asked me to learn a completely new

language for one month. Then I had to go to the country and take some “tests” to see

(2) ………. I could “survive” in different situations. I decided to study Portuguese

because I’ve always been fascinated by Brazilian culture and really wanted to travel

there. I took a one-month intensive course at a language school. At first, Portuguese

sounded strange like Russian to my ear. Luckily, I found that some words were similar

(3) ……….. English, such as computador (computer) and música (music). However,

the (4) ……….. turned out to be extremely difficult for me. Some of the sounds are

hard to imitate because we don’t use them in English. Also, the spelling is tricky (5)

…….. you get used to it.

My course finished yesterday, and I’m travelling to Brazil next week for mytests. These are the tests I’m going to finish and the rules I have to follow:

Rules:

Tests:

You have to …

- you can’t use a dictionary or